Program
16. December 2010, 2pm - 6pm (meeting, RCC)
Research at the Rachel Carson Center Helmuth Trischler, CoDirector of the Rachel Carson Center Munich
Results of the ESF workshop on computer-based modelling
Matthias Heymann, Department of Science Studies, Aarhus
University
Meetings and aims of the DFG research network Gabriele
Gramelsberger, Institute of Philosophy, FU Berlin
Current research projects and interests Network
Participants and Guests (10 min each)
Discussion
Rachel Carson Center
The Rachel Carson Center is a joint initiative of LMU University
Munich and the Deutsches Museum. Generously supported by the
German Ministry of Research and Education, its goal is to further
research and discussion in the field of international environmental
studies and to strengthen the role of the humanities in the current
political and scientific debates about the environment.
Rachel Carson Center
Leopoldstr. 11a - 80802 Munich (Schwabing)
Phone: +49 (0) 89/ 2180- 72352
http://www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de
DFG Research Network “Atmosphere & Algorithms”
The DFG Research Network brings together researchers from history
and philosophy of atmospheric science with researchers from
atmospheric science. Since forecasting algorithms have increasingly
gained ground in meteorology in the 1950s and since the Charney
Report posed the question of climate sensitivity in 1979, modelling
has paved the way of meteorology to climate change science and
policy. The goal of the network is to discuss the ongoing
developments in atmospheric science (weather and climate science)
due to the use of computer based models. (Next meeting is on
‘Visualizing Climate’ at the University of Potsdam in spring 2011)
17. December 2010, 10 am - 2 pm (public workshop,
Deutsches Museum, Library, Seminar Room)
Is complexity the new framework for the study of global life
Emilian Kawalski, University of Western Sydney/RCC Fellow
Model migrations: Mobility and boundary crossings in
regional climate prediction Martin Mahony, School of
Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia
Mapping uncertainty in environmental computer simulation
modeling Catharina Landström, School of Environmental
Sciences, University of East Anglia
Assessing and communicating uncertainties in regional
changes in weather extremes caused by global warming
Arthur Petersen, Netherlands Environmental Assessment
Agency
Models, trust and institutions: How can we gain an
understanding of computer simulation? Matthias Heymann,
Department of Science Studies, Aarhus University
DFG Research Network (December 2010 meeting)
Network: Dania Achermann (IPA Oberpfaffenhofen/RCC
Munich), Johann Feichter (MPI Meteorology Hamburg/ETH
Zürich), Gabriele Gramelsberger (FU Berlin), Matthias
Heymann (Aarhus University), Catharina Landström
(University of East Anglia), Cornelia Luedecke (German
Meteorological Society), Sonja Palfner (TU Berlin), Arthur
Petersen (Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency),
Birgit Schneider (University of Potsdam), Mikaela Sundberg
(University of Stockholm), Helmuth Trischler (RCC Munich),
Hans Volkert (IPA Oberpfaffenhofen). Guests: Helene
Guillemont (CNRS A. Koyré Paris), Matthijs V. Kouw
(University of Maastricht), Thomas Ludwig (DKRZ Hamburg),
Martin Mahony (University of East Anglia).